Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized Monday for racially provocative remarks he made about Arab voters on Israel’s election day last week, but the move failed to assuage critics of his campaign-trail tactics, which sparked outrage in Israel and drew rare public rebukes from...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to form a new government after his election victory this week, but already he faces what could be a substantial shift in relations with the United States.

For years, American politicians have waxed poetic about the “shared values” of the United States and Israel – ideals that typically aren’t spelled out but usually are taken to mean the basic tenets of Western democracy.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fresh from a victory in Israel’s elections, tried Thursday to walk back a campaign statement that no Palestinian state would be established on his watch, saying he still endorsed a two-state solution to the conflict.

He’s known as Israel’s mobile-phone messiah for lowering cellphone rates when he served as the minister of communications. Soon Moshe Kahlon may send shareholders in Israel’s banks scrambling if he becomes the finance minister in the country’s new ruling coalition as...

Even before the vote tallies are complete and Israel’s next prime minister is known, one party in Israel’s fractious political scene already was counting itself victorious: the Joint List, an alliance of four Arab parties that will be the third largest voting bloc in the parliament.